Hi everyone,
I’m reviving this brainstorming: this metric is still often bothering me, and I’m seeing that it’s generally the first reason why we insert checkstyle exceptions in the project, see:
- in xwiki-platform: Code search results · GitHub
- in xwiki-contrib: Code search results · GitHub
I still think that increasing this value a little (e.g. using checkstyle’s default) could help to avoid introducing those exception. We already added a bit more class to ignore in it (with Allowing more Excluded Classes for ClassFanOutComplexity) but not sure it’s enough: I have in particular the problem with some APIs like everything’s related to rendering and XWiki’s email API which involve a lot of different classes.